Weaknesses

Famous quotes containing the word weaknesses:

“My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong’s pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)